Today in books and publishing: Malcolm Gladwell takes on the underdog; what really happened with the Pulitzer Prize for fiction this year; Zadie Smith's first book in seven years; Fifty Shades in the air.

Today in the questions of summer: Dealing with face sweat; telling the truth about biking to work; the ethics of going shirtless; what does a middle-of-the-week Fourth of July tell us about God?; stealing from bars.

One key difference between a good book and a great book is that a great book is eternally transportive, no matter how times you return to the well. Here are the books we started reading as kids and haven't put down since.

Hoping to capitalize on the frenzy over Y.A. book sensations like The Hunger Games and Twilight, publishers are returning to their design departments and asking for new teen-friendly looks for the classics.

The latest celebrity-with-gun-accessory photos we're talking about are Terry Richardson's disturbing shots of Lindsay Lohan, which the photographer took down after they started to get "negative attention."

Her phrases are romantic, hilarious, discussable, and debatable—they are the ones that pop up again and again. Where did that come from? Usually, the answer is Nora Ephron. We take a look at some of our favorites.

One year ago New York became the sixth state in the nation to recognize gay marriage. Now it will have to handle gay divorce. If we acknowledge that gay marriages can (and, based on the statistics for heterosexual couples, many of them will) fall apart, does it weaken the case for those marriages having existed in the first place?

Someone has unearthed footage from the early times of man, when beings were only just starting to confront the complicated realities of scientific experimentation and wearing lipstick at the same time.

While we love summer and simply cannot get enough of its charms, it has come to our attention that not everyone is completely thrilled with the hottest season. To help you weather it, we're taking on your most pressing questions — to beard or not to beard? Do clear bra straps count? — in our new Friday column.

The latest redhead in the headlines right now is Merida, the Titian-tressed heroine of the first Pixar movie to focus on the tale of a female protagonist, Brave. But what about her predecessors in Y.A. and children's fiction?

There appears to be something of a legal resolution in the controversial case of former NYPD officer Michael Pena, who was convicted of predatory sexual assault for oral and anal sodomy but not rape in May.